Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Posted by: Glenn

Apple today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. According to the company, Philip Schiller will deliver the opening keynote for this year's Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple's last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco's Moscone Center January 5th-9th, 2009.

Damn, whats this all about? Has to be more than just the current economic conditions and what they stated in this release. And Jobs isn't doing the Keynote??? Hmmmm, bet the rumors are going to start again. What will MacWorld be without Apple? Will it even exist? Oh well, glad I get to be a part of the last one...sucks that I didn't start going before last year._________________ Mercury TiBook 400MHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB HD, Airport
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I could care less who gives the keynote. Just get those new Mac minis out already.

I mean this in the nicest possible way but I'm guessing from the statement your new to Apple and the Mini would be your first machine?_________________MacBook 1.83Ghz C2D, 2GB Ram, 160GB 7200rpm HDD, OS X 10.6.5
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I mean this in the nicest possible way but I'm guessing from the statement your new to Apple and the Mini would be your first machine?

Nope, I'm sitting in front of an old iMac running 10.4.11. I just don't care who gives the keynote this time around. I don't mean this to be disrespectful to Steve Jobs or his health. I just want to see Apple move on some bloody computers. Him being gone from this event could actually be good sign for those of us waiting for something new on the desktop front. In a way, the presence of Steve Jobs has become all about the iPhone, iPod and trendy devices like the Apple TV. The last major event were Phil Schiller was at the helm they announced new iMacs. It wasn't a sexy announcement, but it was a computer. And that's what I'm looking for right now.

Maybe they just want to downplay the importance of Macworld going forward.

I think that's exactly what Apple is trying to do. They can also save money by doing smaller events on their own. It's not like Apple doesn't get enough free PR anyways. The company that I work for would love to have Apple's level of free PR. I wouldn't like it though. I would most assuredly be out of a job working on POP stuff. As for the health and well-being of Steve Jobs, I think that is pure speculation at this time. I wish him well though._________________My Setup